The Sun. — London, England, 1818-12-05 00:00:00

FOR TFIV, SUM. P ro JORN tiOBROUSE, Isq. Soi-eisant M r . P. SI R , ---As you are a Candidate fora Seat in " I ,., rii4 ment, as one of t h e R epresentat i ves o f t h e ^l. Westminster, 1, as an Elector, have a li ght to ineinire into your pretensions. Who are w h° offer yourself as a Representative of one 01 t he very first Cities in the whole civilized world? ().,l'the last Election I gave a plumper for Captain AltletaAy MAXWELL, and I desire to know why 4s11 " 41 not do the same on, the ensuing Elec t why I should give a preference to you ? I hove h eAr d you styled a young Gentleman. I de- t herefore, to know your age ; for if I were , It) j u dge froth th e W or k i mpute d to you, I shou ld oiler that y on cannot have attained the time of life reneired for admission into the Legislative E jtase ' ll blY. and ce r t a i n ly t h a t y ou are so ver y f ar runt it aving arri ve d at y ears o f di scre ti on , t h at you ; P tlev er likely to reach them. In the first place, i atit ' if that d etesta bl e wor k i s rea ll y your produc -4)-4 fOr,if so,I hold you totally unfit to be admitted r tlt°a nY body of men who se d u ty i t i s t o support the f6t4h Constitution, and to respect the character itnt i a itY. A letter appeared in The Morning p -r ? fl icie addressed to you, desiring to know your te al Creed. That letter was copied into the craper which, I hope, from its constitutional pr.:al lPt", Will a d m i t t hi s a l so. Si r, you must not :Peet t o r i de into the Representation of West itlhristet. "Pon the shoulders of the rabbt . e, nor will e Citt the pow er of th e th ousan d poun d s sent b y v "Nets BURDETT to maintain the purity of kt . ect ioz, or any other sums which 'a patriotic etlitil'?- house may contribute to the same inde trcle4t purpose, to place you there. No, Sir, the p e "°rs of W estm i nster w ill try and prove your h b i ‘ iti c 4l Creed before they give their support y,),l Yore, Be assured that the letter which ed , Pa pe disdained to notice, must be answer the "irou s h a ll not b e f orced upon us by patriotic co rrupt i on. Are you an advocate for tli(lt Parliaments and Universal Suffrage upon ilri neinles of HUNT, Dr. WATSON, GALE 4 , O rator THELwALL, and the rest of the te ttnsiv e Rabble, w h o d emonstrate t h e f ree d om oi, i ; t4 Laws, by t h e daring licentiousness of their 4 4 le "oduct ? What are your ideas respecting t tl eArt4 in Parliament ? To what limit do they, .Who, besides Sir FR AN CIS BURDET T th e nO „ w tA tt "'e' Desper a d oes a b ove - ment i one d, '' v ited You to stan d f or t h e Ci ty of West ea titter st 4 a Who are the persons that form the tta nr he which conducts your Canvass ? Let aa tp , far t their names, that we ma y b e a bl e to Of th a n eirestimate of their characters, and to judge eell Principles. I shall certainly renew my Poi tlt ilni l You for a full explanation on ajl these greats, as they are of main i mportance to the in itut, aod honour of the City of Wesminster.— ttati I s I de ntand front you, Sir, some substantial f)n support from apt t; slloolit withdraw my set a 1 1 ceeL, and transfer it 40 4) s littaAy AXv "ha h °U the one side I see a gallant Officer, hi s 4 (. 8 . ° heti hazarded his life in the service 41411,-oitetry who is not only respected and t i t . tt ik bY . a numerous host . Of friends in his ! tti x wies 'ion, who can best judge of his he s tt h ti a who are well acqu,inted with his vir -1:11.1:altt Who is admired by those who know him t; lt er ' r , 4 , ele s"f private life, and who are hardly less tit:3l3,•--During the time that he appeared on a t ter liti tzss till he was driven array. by the ro t ett ilts who are understood to be your sup tti 6 1 14 f t„ 4111 d Who had nearly murdered hint, he i t i 'te,": l (l good sense, a manly eloquence, and a tr,,„ generous,' and forgiving disposition. the attacks ofuis enemies with good '44 stir While his lif e was not i o danger, and attlse r- PreSeUvati On Gl:diger! hint to retreat, his tl+t -4 s U I I 4et tr :til by men of worth, talents, and ' whose support of hint did honour to v, e • Such is Sir MURRAY MAXWELL, 4 1 , r ail , . r:* "" profession, an lionoiir to his coon ktei' but ,1 1*, Who ar e y ou ? Th e El ectors k now it .'ty bear that VOil are the author of a work t " 4 '4, is t ar horn supporting th e Coun tA ?", as he has dune with his sw ord, Cteeite:fs. oil the contr a ry, contain; principles Q overturn th e Constitution, that no . 11 can be th oug h t capable of avow :Litkt.lttgiliio.d tissue of senseless ribaldry against 4 ituth or i ly• and shrews a mind ; 4 , a .kloottrehi a l G ove rnment,.--a a wor t r4S or c l irgh p ra i se o f B UONAYARTE, the ZOihe rt ot ti laLkind, an d t h e w h o l esa l e b utc h er Q1,Q,,Y,• This b oo k h as b een treate d i n 1 4; tv hieh ier lY ne t i ew w i th admirable ridicule, 414)0at tt glit rath er to h ave b een st i gmat i zed b y tdtt Ilr thi s reprobation. Si r , y ou must es kin 3 111 " st execrable . work, bef ore y ou .4 11; tie (: ity offer yourself as a Candid a t e fo r t‘e,,iltAerit ` v estinnaster, or deserve a place in tor i „ as the Representative of even the fa t l i ph B orough that can be found in the Mr iloatiouse, jun. coroe , • •• • er e ''e world at large who you are, vetensions, what your po. I ‘ ll e, t ` t tia l , e i ldess and give 113 a reason why we ‘ ,414 i3's'ou, whose character is obscure, and Cly t . Wh o .7 . °oly know . n by that of one of your li ` "ds long enjoyed the patronage of ['ht 43. at)d whose political sentiments must 14 4 11Lt 'al 'i , "ter ent from your own, or otherwise f l t ' tt '"te g _ t ' t) °u ght to be nsferred to i. some tu v . .itied to it, and better qucitfied to "is Country. AN ELECTOR. ‘7 l. '\ w~~~ Tim PRINCt REC-ElliT'S COURT. 'esterday, at half-pass three o'clock, his Royal Highness the PaiNcE REGENT held a Court at Carlton House, at which his Excellency Baron Fatel, the Ambassador from the Court of the Netherlands, was introduCed to the Regent by Earl Bathurst, one of !be principal Secretaries of State when his Excellency delivered a Letter of Condo lence on the demise of the late Queen, from the King of the Netherlands. Lord Grenville came to Court, attended by two of the Esquire BedeUs, as Chancellor of . the Uni versity of Oxford, in his robes, being deputed to attend his Royal Highness upon the melancholy occasion of the demise of his Royal Mother.— The Chancellor was introduced into the presence of the Regent, when his Lordship delivered an Address of Condolence upon the demise of her Majesty the Queen. The Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cam bridge, in the absence of his Royal Highness the Duke of 'Gloucester lrotn England, the Chancellor of that University, attended for a similar pur pose. He was introduced into the presence of the Regent by Earl Bathurst, and delivered an Ad dress of Condolence upon the demise of her Ma jesty the Queen. Lord James Murray was the Lord in Waiting. Sir Hilgrove Turner was the Groom in Waiting for Sir Edward Paget. MR. HORSLEY'S CHILD. Besides the letters mentioned h our Paper of Yesterday, a Lady obligingly called on 1.17r5. iioast.Ey with another letter received from her brother at Bremen, dated the 24th ult. contain ing much interesting informality, on the subject of the " Recovered Chiid." Of this letter the following is a copy : " Bremen, Nov. 24, three o'clock P. M. " Mr. Horsley, of London, whose son was stolen from him about three weeks past, sent last Sunday, from Leer, an ex press on to this place to may friend, Mr. Coleman, the British Consul at Bremen ,stai ing that be was thenin pursuit ofCharles Rennett, the person who cat tied the child off; and presumed, by the time, or before the express reached Mr. Coleman, that the said ReQuett would he in Bremen, requesting him to use every exertion to ailirehend the villain. Mr. Coleman re ceived the letter at five o'clock yesterday morning, and as soon it was day-light set anon; the business. He discover ed that a person answering the description given of hint by Mr. tiorsley, in his letter. had come from Leer, I think, last Tl.nrsday, and went to the Loudon Hotel with the child. After stavii, there about an hour, he went down the river, to‘ a place celled Vegesack, left the child there, and returned to Bremen, to engage a passage in the American ship Pallas, boo .:'. to Baltimore, for which he was to pay '2lO Spanish I dollars, for himself and child. lie quitted this on Friday, at about three o'clock, went down to Vegesack, and on Satur day proceeded still farther down the river to Braake, there to await the captain of the ship, to proceed to sea With the first fair wind; which would hare been the ca!e this after noon, or to-amt.-ow morning. •, " Mr. Coleman having learnt the foregoing, would not trust a messenger with an order to apprehend tha unfeeling thief; ,hut set off himself, at 1 t o'clock yesterday, for Beaks, He had asked use to dine with him as yeSterday, souse days ago, and accordingly I went yesterday. Mrs. Coleman imme diately informed sue that he was under the necessity of going to Braka, for the foregoing reasons. . 1 however dined there, and stayed till late its the evening; when, at half-past :en o'clock, we were informed by the servai:t that two strangers wished to speak with the Consul ; we immediately concluded that it was Mr. Horsley, who in Isis letter observed he should follow the express as soon as possible. In fact, it was so. We immediately informed him how far Mr. Coleman had pro ceeded, and that there was every likelihood of the child being recovered. I went over with hint to his hotel, advised hin to remain there, and wrote a letter to Mr, Coleman, enclosing the Bow-street warrant, and by an express sent it oft to Braka. '• This morning at day-light, an express came up from Mr. Coleman, stating he had recovered the child, and secured Bennett; requiring at the same time, if Mr. Horsley was in Bremen, that he should come down to him to Braka, to prove before the Magistrate there that he is the father of the child! Mr. Coleman's brother-in-law (Mr. Berners, fro :o Frankfort) and myself immediately went over to the London Hotel, and informed Mr. Horsley bow to proceed—had a carriage procured for him—went off at ten o'clock—and pre sume that by this time he has the child in his arms. He will probably not return here till to-morrow afternoon, as some Judicial proceedings must be fulfilled for the securing of Ren net►, aad obtaining the child. Before Mr. Horsley left tc•wle this morning, I advised him of the mail from Cuxhaven leav ing this at five o'clock for England; he immediately wrote a few lines, and gave them to Mr. Bcrners, who has sent them tc,:t he Post-office. "You wii!, my sister, on receipt of this, call on M rs . Horsley, and assure her of the safety of Mr.. Horsley and child. It will be doing an act of humanity, which we should ourselves wish done to us in a similar situation." It is said, that when the father was introduced, with other Gentlemen, into the room in which his child was, the little fellow no sooner set eyes on him, than, bursting into a kind o f hy ster i ca l laugh, and ribbing into his arms, he at last got his tongue to articulate—calling out, " 0 Pa ! my own dear Pa !'• The unfeeling thief, Rennett, when he found his hellish purpose frustrated, and himself arrest ed, implored mercy in the most abject and hu miliating terms. He is in safe custody ; and the necessary measures for transmitting the base wretch to Englaild are in progress: . It is stated that Rennett and the child. were ac tually on hoard the vessel, ready to sail for Ame rica ; and that hut for the proMpt and most praiseworthy vigilance of Mr. Coleman, the Bri tish Consul, the villain would in all probability have got off with his prize. The mourning for her late MAJESTY was very general on Sunday at Edinburgh. The appear ance of the children of the City Hospital was ex tremely neat. The boys of Heriot's (who were ail in new cloathing) and Watson's wore knotted crapes round their left arms, and the girls of the Merchants' and Traders' Hospitals, had their bonnets decorated with black ribbons, and wore black gloves. CORONER'S INQUEST.—Yesterday an Inquest was held at the Eagle and Child, Shoe-Line, near the Workhouse, before THOMAS SHELTON, Esq. Coroner for the City of LOndon„on view of the body of a child only six weeks old, who was accidentally killed by being run over by a hackney coach the preceding day, nearly facing Furnival's Inn, Holborn. The mother of the child attempted to cross the street with it in her arms, when she, not being. quick enough in passing, was accidentally struck by the pole,which knocked her down, and the child was thrown out of her arms, when the coach wheel passed over it and killed it on the spot. The mother escaped unhurt. Verdict-4ccidental Death. Thursday the labourers employed iu digging f o r the purpose of forming the sewer in Bhekman street, Borough, .found a human sk e l eton at t h e distance o f nineteen feet from the surface of the ground. POETRY. ODE TO THE GENIUS OF FRANCE. titaNtE! where is now thy boasted power, O'er rival Monarchies to tower Thou (Lir' st net grow assume high airs and vapotte: Where is the eemet's fearful blaze ? How faint its fire- . —what feeble rays! Surpass'd in splendour by a faithing taper. Where are fiat-bottomed boats and prames, With troops to terrify Oid Thames, KnocL down the To" , er, heroically daring, itob the rich Bank, tear by the roots The firms of DatimmoNn, MoRLAN 0, COUTTS, RoTHSCUILD, the monied Israelite, and BAR/NO? Where is the Chief who led thy wars ? Nacot.Ecrst does not thank his stars For giving rocks for bed and contemplation; From whence he looks with longing eyes Towannis bear PARTS, that with sighs Laments the loss of hint and depredation. Storn treasures now are all. retn riling** The TUILLERIES in deepest mourning: To each vain Frenchman what a galling sight! Dead the gay blossoms of her hopes, Sad PARIS o'er the ruin mopes, And damns the British lightning for the blight. Alas ! how fall'n surd:, how low ! Quite prostrate, with a face of woe: From Pity's eye not bonour'd by a tear— What compliment will Justice pay? I Lent the anger'd goddess say— " Slave of a mad ambition lie thou there !” Somers'-Town. 4 ' This Poem, we understand, was written soon after the restoration of the BounuoNs, and when restitution was made of the plunder of other countries. EPILOGUE TO THE TRAGEDY OF BRUTUS. WRITTEN BY A FRIEND, SPOKEN BY MRS. GLOVER. May Mrs. GLovett venture to appear? She neither uses nor speaks daggers here ; She comes quite tame, iu the old English way, 'Jo hope you all have—wept at our new Play. 7'allitt no more, I tread on English ground ; There's pride, hope, courage, in the very sound; Myself your debtor, many a changeful year Fur generous kindness—never changing here, I come to ask that nimblest now for one Unknown,—or but by this night's fortunes known, To cheer a youthful votary of the Nine, And fill his heart with gratitude—like mine. Aye, this is England—well its signs I know, Beauty above, around me, and below : Such cheeks of rose, such bright bewitching eyes! Well may the kneeling world give you the prize! Where, where on earth, does woman wear a smile Like Ours, ye glory of " TIIF GLORIOUS ISLE?" But bless me—what, two nondescripts together, That sfse—a pile of ribband, straw, and feather; Her back a pillion, all above and on it A church-bell? cradle? tower?—No, faith, a bonnet! Ave, and an actual woman in it, able— Rouse bil.ter tongue—to ::sake that tower a Babc:: Now for the he, the fellow nondescript: Whence has that mockery of man been shipt ? Have Ross or BUCHAN brought him to console The quidnuncs for the passage to the Pole ? While, on her iceberg, howls some Greenland squaw, Robbed of her pretty monster till next thaw ! No, Paris has the honour. " Ate yue oui." Voila"—the air, grace, shrug,—smell of Paris ! France gave his step its trip, his tongue its phrase, His head its peruke, and Isis waist its stays ! The thing is contraband. Let's crush the trade; Ladies, insist on't—all is best home-made. All British, from your shoe-tye or your fan, Down to that tantalizing wretch—called man ! Now for the compound creature—first. the wig, With every frizzle struggling to look big : On the rouged cheek the fresh-dyed whisker spread, The thousandth way of dressing a calf's Lead. The neckcloth next, where starch and whalebone vie, To make the stave a walking pillory. The bolstered bosom, all ! ye envying fair, How little dream you of the stuff that's there ! What straps, ropes, 'steel, the aching ribs compress, To make the Dandy " beautifully less." Thus fools, their final stake of folly cast, By instinct, to strait waistcoats come at last. Misjudging- SHAKsezAttn! this escaped thine e7e, For though the brains are out, the thing won t die. And now,- farewell ! But one word for the Bard, The smile of Beauty is his best reward; Then smile upon him, you, and you, and you ! I see the Poet's cause is won. Adieu ! THE THEATRES.--We forgot to mention yes terday, that the new Tragedy of Brutus was written by Mr. flowann PAYNE, a Gentleman of well-known literary and theatrical talents. It was repeated last night at Drury-Lane Theatre before a very numerous audience, with confirmed success. The dying scene of Lucretia was omitted, and other cnrtailments have been judiciously made, but it still requires retrenchment to give it a more forcible operation on the feelings. Yet as the piece is generally imbued with poetical_spirit, it should be given in its original state when pub lished. , COVENT- GA RDEN.— The Rivals was followed last night by Rose d'Amour, in which Miss BEAU MONT again niade a highly favourable impression on the audience. ARMY.—Yesterday afternoon the 3d Battalion of Grenadier Guards, cruder the command of Cc!. D'OYLaY, marched into London. This fine body of men formed a part of the Army of Occupa tion in France, and landed a few days since at Ramsgate, and having proceeded aslar as Dart ford they received orders to change their route, by crossing the country for Windsor, where they arrived on Tuesday, to attend the furnerat of the late QUEEN. 'fb-y marched into town with a full band, which, with their fine soldier-lily: ap pearance, had a most imposing effect, and at tracted the notice of an immense number of spec tators. On Thursday morning, about ten o'clock, the Duke of Yoax proceeded from his apartments, Windsor Castle, in his regimentals, cap, &c. of the First Regiment of Foot Guards, to the Infan try Barracks, attended by Colonel COOKE and Co lonel UPTON, and inl)ected the third Battalion of; his Regiment, who 'arrived there on the lg. instant front France, to attend the funeral of the late QUEBN. FOR ME SUN. tralcAL ERRORS.--(LETTER M.) liar; erat in votis i tc. Ma. EDITOR,--it his ever been among the number of my wishes to see such a translatio of the Old Testament from the original language in which it was written, as should be free from ma nifest inconsistencies, darkness, and indecencies, • so that my daughters might read it without a blush, and my sons without disgust. At ten years of age, first opened it in its present ver sion, uninfluenced by parents, misses, or school masters, under whose trammels I received no di , section; but; unawed by authority, I was left (0 think and judge for myself. Nullius addiclus rare in verb(' magistri. This is my 'rejoicing, and [ have tbonght and judged accordingly, untainted by spiritual fallacies, and with a love of our Constitu. (ion in Church and State, which I deem the best in the eivlized world. As my years.inereased, what I found occult in this book, the first that was ever made known to me by men, I passed over, and lamented that after the various translations, I could depend on none as indisputably true As a history of the Jews, in its present English, I paused and pondered over it as the best I could procure. I went through it in Latin and French also, and sorry am I to say, that they to me were preferable, and forced me to infer that the. He brew language must be out.of the reach of human ken, when so many attempts had been made to give the world a literal and verbatim translation without success. This left me to my own con struction, end to imagine that. what was written by the holy pen-men, who were divinely inspired, and had a spiritual intercourse with the Deity, was misrepresented; or that they might have (iris taken the voice of God, and embodied it erro reously. If we are to believe that the Hebrew ianguapt,e is incapable of variation, and that, as a dead one, it was fixed, never to change in idiom or dialect, like a living one, there would be no contradiction in it, and we should read it as the most endear of all histories, giving it full credit for ail it relates, without being able to deny it, any more than we can the Commentaries of Caesaror the Annals of 'racist's ; but when it abounds in errors 8;1(1 obscurity, if we believe them to be sacred, we should be insane, by derogating front the perfection of the Deity, and reducing his om niscience to the presumptuous ignorance of Wall: Looking at the present faulty English Translation, I am filled with doubts as to the veracity of seve ral parts of it ; arid my wonder ceases, that ever since it has been in the hands of the people, as a fruit of the Reformation, it should be treated with indifference, and in their common parlance be converted' into jests 'and proverbial sayings. if any of it 47 translations had been echoes of its ori ginal,' its contents would not have excited asto nishment, nor would any one have put it aside. This as a truth results from the conflicts of Trans lators and the tyianuy of Popery. I forbear to give instances ; hut I must declare, that of the three Old Testaments in my possession, not one is satisfactory ,in the whole. They appear to be the feeble perforeterices 4:f meet n r.-hum too much trust has been reposed, for giving its in our own tongue the Word of God, transfused through the mortal senses of his chosen creatures, men ; and this from their creation to their destruction, and subsequent deliverance from Egyptian bon dage, their journey to the promised land, their relapses into idolatry, their repentance and sin, down to their captivity in Babylon, under Hosea and Zedekiah, by Nebuchadnezzar and Salmana zar ; their restoration by Cyrus, and their total dispersion on the birth, doctrine, and death of the Messiah. A Nvork, thus handled by the weakness and arrogance of unhallowed men, has swelled my wishes to see it, if possible, as recorded by its Authors, not as mutilated and misunderstood by its Translators, who, having been deceived them selves, have deceived their Headers, and left theta to believe in the word of man instead of the word of God. Have we an Old Testament in English that can be called a fac-sintile copy of what came from the pens of the Writers under the name of the Yenta• tench ? In substance we read in Genesis an ac count of the Creation to the death of Joshua ; its Exodus the tyranny of Pharaoh over an inoffen sive people, and their deliverance by divine inter position; in Leviticus, the order and offices of the Jewish Priesthood ; in Numbers, their jour nits and incidents through the Wilderness; itt ' Deuteronomy, the law and ceremonies of Moses repeated, with. exhortations to better obedience, and thanks for Divine favour ; in Joshua, an ac-` count of his wars ; in Judges, the condition of Israel in Canaan, from the death ot Joshua to the death of Eli ; in Ruth, a virtuous woman, who slept at the feet of Boaz ; in Samuel, a history ot himself and Eli under Saul and David ; in Kings, a history of the Jewish Monarchy to the captivi ty ; in Ezra, a continuation of it ; in Nehemiah, his journey and stay in Jerusalem, for twelve years, to rebuild it in Esther, a beautiful cap, rive, and her influence over a King who had repu diated his Queen Vashti for disobedience; in Job, his patience ; in Psalms, David's heathen philo- sophy ; in Proverbs, lessons ; in Ecclesiastes, wisdotn ; and in the Canticles, the songs of Solo mon. All of which I collect from the current version, as a chymist would ore from its dross\- Mr. BELLANY, therefore, disdains- to baptise errors, contradictions, and absurdities, by the name of sacred. His study is to remove them, and make the Old Testament in Hebrew speak as it was written, neither to add to, or diminish from a vowel point in it. It is this that has pro• doted the critical censure of a competitor for pub. lic favour towards a Bible of his own. It ought to be known for what it truly is, to shew the power and grace of the Almighty in his theocracy, to the end of that final redemption and titivation which Christianity promises. But Mr. BELLAMY is abused by his critic ! Have patience, Sir, he cannot hurt you with the wise, and fools will not read him. His strictures are compliments, and his abuse is praise, which will increase the circulation of your work, and esta blish it as on a rock, against which the gates of it canot prevail. STACK/MUSE. [To Ls contbaued.l